5) You know you are Borderline when...

you both want and fear closeness and comfort from another human being.

you wonder if you'll ever really be able to enjoy being with a group of people.

You wake up early on a Saturday morning to go after a job only to be told there are 400 people there already and you should rather just email your CV as they're not seeing anymore applicants.... So automatically you believe the world is conspiring against you to keep you broke and miserable because you're worthless.

That's so me!

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you wake up and the first phone call of the day sends you into a tailspin and entirely ruins the whole day

...when one of your coworkers is particularly crabby (because she's overwhelmed because we're awful busy and short handed) but you automatically think you've done something wrong. And you try to be extra nice to her so she gets over it so YOU can get over it.

When your H yells and cusses out the video game he is playing and it starts to make you so anxious that you slip away to the peace and quiet of your bedroom.

You know you're borderline when you think small problems are worse than they are and respond to them irrationally.

For me, it's when my husband is on the phone with his family. It sounds like he's yelling all the time and it makes me uncomfortable and anxious. I often have to leave in order to calm myself down.

When u can only spend a hour or so on the presence of ya family before getting overwhelmed and wanting space. And then feeling like a total weirdo !

When you wonder if you'll ever be able to socialize with a small group, without it becoming an emotional, all-consuming ordeal (when thinking about it afterwards).

Yeah! Meetings at work get me like that too.
Too many exchanged glances around me. Ughh!
Feel like a paranoid freak.

When you don't want to fit into a mold by society but would do anything to be accepted by everyone.

I could not have put that any better if all my brain cells decided to work... and in unison! Oh how many years have I felt like the third wheel in friendships, never really good enough, smart enough, stable enough for 'normal' friendships to survive

I'm BPD with some narcissistic traits... how about when you meet a new group of potential friends, and you're afraid that you're going to have them all hating you within a month or 2.. like you've done before on several occasions with other groups of potential friends.

you have the patience of a firecracker soaked in gasoline laying in a field of dry grass!

When thinking about things that happened years ago, can still get you all tied up in knots and emotions.

When you go into a Support forum...feel angry & hate everyone.. don't see why people feel connected
.....feel like a foreigner...and a crackhead for seeking happiness and sabotaging it.

Trying out Support groups. social media.etc. like trying out clothes... repeatedly switching

When you kill nearly all the threads you participate in on the BPD forum except this one, because here, nobody has to directly acknowledge you.

Everyone is worried about you and thinks you're freaking out, but you can't understand why, because for you this is normal and "freaking out" is in a whole other ballpark.

That could apply to a mere OCD sufferer, dude. You know you're borderline when you simply can't deal with anything without freakin' out.

When u freak out on something seemingly small and look like a out and out lunatic !!

When you're afraid to close your shop early, because you're afraid of the nasty comments you'll get from people....
I intend to close early today, by the way... the first time I've closed early in several months.

My son has a swimming lesson. And the wife can't take him.

You're attracted to drama?